Trichodiadema mirabile
Trichodiadema mirabile is succulent plant of the genus Trichodiadema, native to the Western Cape Province, South Africa, where it is known from the Laingsburg area and especially from south-facing slopes.
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| Juvenile T. mirabilis in cultivation. | |
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| Species: | T. mirabile |
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| Trichodiadema mirabile Schwantes | |
Description
A small, erect shrub, reaching up to 11 cm.
The leaves are erect, stiff and papillate, and each leaf is tipped with dark-brown, erect, inclining bristles.
The flowers are white to pale-cream in colour, with white filamentous staminodes at the centre, and are on short stalks.
The fruit capsule has six locules, each locule with distinctive V-shaped covering membranes.[1]
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References
- H.E.K. Hartmann and I.M. Niesler. (2013). A new morphological study of the genus Trichodiadema (Aizoaceae) permits the description of a new subgenus, t. subg. Gemiclausa. Bradleya 31:58-75.
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